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This greater interest of consumers in more \u2018natural\u2019 or \u2018clean-label\u2019 food interventions is complicated by concurrent demands for minimally processed, ready-to-eat (RTE) foods with long shelf lives. Two viable interventions are bacteriophage (phage) and bacteriocins, a number of which have already been approved for use in food safety. Listeriosis is a serious foodborne infection which affects at-risk members of the population. Listeriosis incidence has increased between 2008 and 2015 and has a case fatality rate of up to 20% with antibiotic intervention. Here, we tested an intervention to attempt to control a pathogenic Listeria monocytogenes strain in a food model using two of these alternative antimicrobials. Phage P100 on its own had a significant effect on L. monocytogenes ScottA numbers in coleslaw over a 10-day period at 4 \u00b0C (p \u2264 0.001). A combination of P100 and Nisaplin\u00ae (a commercial formulation of the lantibiotic bacteriocin, nisin) had a significant effect on the pathogen (p \u2264 0.001). P100 and Nisaplin\u00ae in combination were more effective than Nisaplin\u00ae alone, but not P100 alone.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/v11110977","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,10,25]],"date-time":"2019-10-25T03:20:36Z","timestamp":1571973636000},"page":"977","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":31,"title":["The Effect of a Commercially Available Bacteriophage and Bacteriocin on Listeria monocytogenes in Coleslaw"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"given":"Rhea","family":"Lewis","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"APC Microbiome Ireland, University College Cork, T12 YT20 Cork, Ireland"},{"name":"School of Microbiology, University College Cork, T12 YN60 Cork, Ireland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Andrei Sorin","family":"Bolocan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"APC Microbiome Ireland, University College Cork, T12 YT20 Cork, Ireland"},{"name":"School of Microbiology, University College Cork, T12 YN60 Cork, Ireland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Lorraine A.","family":"Draper","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"APC Microbiome Ireland, University College Cork, T12 YT20 Cork, Ireland"},{"name":"School of Microbiology, University College Cork, T12 YN60 Cork, Ireland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"R. 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